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Tag Archives: Civil War
Captain Grant: A Turning Point
Grant: The 1850s Ulysses S. Grant had become a soldier under duress. His father insisted that his eldest son attend West Point. It was a free education. Not that Jesse Grant was poor; he was definitely middle class, with a … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, American history, Civil War, Democrat Stephen Douglas, Feather Schwartz Foster, Grant in Galena IL, Grant tannery in Galena IL, Grant's family, Grant's father, history, Jesse Grant Sr., Julia Grant, Republican Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, The election of 1860, Ulysses and Julia Grant, Ulysses Grant, US Civil War, US Civil war history, US history
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Julia Grant’s Bad Hat Story
Julia, The Plain Child Julia Dent (1826-1902) was the fourth of eight children (one died in infancy) born to Frederick W. Dent and Ellen Bray Wrenshall. Four boys and four girls. In that order. Colonel Dent (an honorary title) was … Continue reading
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Tagged American history, Civil War, Civil War history, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, First Ladies history, First Lady History, General Grant, General Ulysses S. Grant, history, Julia Dent Grant, Julia Grant, Ladies bonnets in the 19th century, Presidential history, Union General Ulysses S. Grant, US history
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Grant, Buckner and the Pillow Flight
Gideon Pillow was first and foremost a “political” general of massive pretensions. The Stuffed Pillow Gideon Pillow (1806-78) was born and raised to a prosperous and well-connected Tennessee family. He attended the University of Nashville, became an attorney, and went … Continue reading
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Tagged American Civil War, American history, Civil War, Civil War history, Confederate General John Floyd, CSA General Gideon Pillow, CSA General Simon Buckner, Feather Schwartz Foster, Fort Donelson TN, Fort Henry, General Gideon Pillow, General Simon Bolivar Buckner, General Ulysses S. Grant, General Winfield Scott, General Zachary Taylor, history, President James K. Polk, Presidential history, Simon Bolivar Buckner, Ulysses S. Grant, US history
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General Grant’s No-Exchange Order
Hard to Believe, But… After millenniums of savage butchery, more “civilized” armies faced each other on the most favorable empty grounds they could find and they became battlefields, far from villages and towns and private citizens. If a belligerent was … Continue reading
Posted in Abraham Lincoln, American Civil War, Nifty History People, Ulysses S. Grant
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, Civil War history, Civil War prisoners of war, CSA General Simon Buckner, Feather Schwartz Foster, Ft. Pillow, General Cornwallis, General Grant, General Simon Bolivar Buckner, General Ulysses S. Grant, George Washington at Yorktown, history, Presidential history, Simon Bolivar Buckner, The battle of Milikens Bend, The battle of Port Hudson, The Emancipation Proclamation, U.S. Grant at Vicksburg, US Civil War, US history
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Grant and Lincoln at City Point
In 1864-5, City Point, VA briefly became the tenth largest city in the United States. Grant in the East On February 29, 1864, President Lincoln promoted General Ulysses S. Grant as General of the Army – outranking everyone. Since Grant … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, American history, City Point VA, Civil War, Civil War history, Eppes house in City Point VA, Feather Schwartz Foster, General George Meade, General Horace Porter, General U.S. Grant, General Ulysses S. Grant, General William T. Sherman, history, Lincoln visits Petersburg VA, President Abraham Lincoln, Presidential history, Quartermaster General Rufus Ingalls, The siege of Petersburg, US Civil War, US history
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Montgomery Meigs: Civil War Quartermaster
The United States Army in April, 1861 On the eve of the Civil War, the regular United States Army consisted of 16,000 soldiers, most of which were deployed out west. Other than maintaining the always-touchy peace with the native tribes, … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, American Civil War, American history, Civil War, Civil War history, Civil War Quartermaster Department, Feather Schwartz Foster, Fort Sumter, General George B. McClellan, General George McClellan, George B. McClellan, Montgomery C. Meigs, Montgomery Meigs, President Abraham Lincoln, Quartermaster budget for the Civil War, Quartermaster Department during the Civil War, Quartermaster General Meigs, Secretary of State William Seward, Senator James G. Blaine, The Peninsula Campaign, The Union Army, US history
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Civil War Medicine: Dr. Letterman’s System Evolves
Dr. Jonathan Letterman had devised, implemented and had gained success with a well-trained ambulance corps. Then he turned his attention to medical practices itself. Civil War Doctors and their Equipment By 1860s, medical practice in America had barely evolved since … Continue reading
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Tagged Civil War, Civil War battlefield casualties, Civil War doctors, Civil War field hospitals, Civil War history, Civil War medical instruments, Civil War medical wagons, Civil War medicine, Civil War surgery, Dr. Jonathan Letterman, Medical practices of the Civil War, Medical tools of the Civil War, The Civil War Ambulance Corps, The Father of Battlefield Medicine
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Dr. Jonathan Letterman and Civil War Medicine
Evacuating the wounded from the battlefield could take days at the start of the American Civil War. The Letterman System Dr. Jonathan Letterman (1824-72) was an army surgeon who came from a distinguished medical family. During the 1850s, he was … Continue reading
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Tagged "Father of Battlefield Medicine", Ambulance Corps, American Civil War, American history, Battle of Bull Run, Battle of Fredericksburg, Battle of Gettysburg, Battle of Second Manassas, Civil War, Civil War ambulances, Civil War history, Civil war medical advances, Dr. Jonathan Letterman, Feather Schwartz Foster, General George B. McClellan, history, Jonathan Letterman, Major Jonathan Letterman, medicine during the Civil War, The history of the Ambulance Corps, The Letterman System, US history
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“Prince” John Magruder: Confederate Showman
John B. Magruder was the Confederacy’s master showman whose tactics have gone down in history as the best flim-flam of the Civil War. John Bankhead Magruder: Virginia Soldier John Bankhead Magruder (1807-1871) was Virginia born and raised, University of Virginia … Continue reading
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Tagged American history, Civil War, Civil War Battle of Yorktown, Civil War history, Civil War Siege of Yorktown, Feather Schwartz Foster, General George McClellan, General John B. Magruder, General Joseph E. Johnston, Geprge McClellan, history, John B. Magruder, John Magruder's maneuvers in Yorktown, Joseph E. Johnston, McClellan's Peninsula Campaign, Peninsula Campaign, US Civil War, US history
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General Grant Saves General Lee
On April 9, 1865, Ulysses S. Grant became the most popular man in America. Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House Civil War Victory: The Euphoria The news was instantaneously carried by telegraph wire across the country – North … Continue reading
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Tagged American Civil War, American history, Civil War, Feather Schwartz Foster, General Grant, General Joseph E. Johnston, General Lee, General Robert E. Lee, General Ulysses S. Grant, General William T. Sherman, history, Jefferson Davis, John Wilkes Booth, Lee surrender at Appomattox, Lincoln's Assassination, Lincoln's funeral train, President Andrew Johnson, Presidential history, Robert E. Lee, Secretary of State William Seward, Ulysses Grant, Ulysses S. Grant, US history, Vice President Andrew Johnson
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